Indiana BMV bans trans people from correcting drivers licenses

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Indiana BMV bans trans people from correcting drivers licenses

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/indiana-bmv-bans-trans-people-from-correcting-drivers-licenses/ 🔗

Alex Bollinger (11 Feb 2026)

The state of Indiana just banned trans people from updating the gender markers on their driver's licenses.

Advocate reports that the state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles added a small statement to its website on Monday saying that it will no longer allow people to change their gender on state IDs, even if they have a court order.

The notice can be found by clicking through several webpages on the state's BMV website:

Gender Change Rule Update

Effective Feb. 12, 2026, the BMV will no longer provide customers with the option to change their gender on their Indiana credential by using a court ordered gender change or physician statement per Amended Rule 140 Indiana Administrative Code section 7-1.1-3.

Indiana has been rolling back transgender people's rights for the past few years. In 2014, trans people were allowed to update the gender marker on their birth certificates with a court order. In March 2025, Gov. Mike Braun (R) signed an executive order banning the practice. The ACLU sued to stop the executive order.

In January 2020, the Indiana BMV stopped allowing people to choose an "X" gender marker on their driver's licenses, after about a year of allowing it. Then-Attorney General Curtis Hill said that the BMV had overstepped its authority in allowing the nonbinary gender markers and said that "only the General Assembly" has the power to decide if nonbinary gender markers are allowed.

[Lori Dee ✅]

I wonder if any lawyers in Indiana have been affected by this.

They could return to the court that issued the order and claim that the state BMV is in contempt for failing to recognize it.